This article identifies the many opportunities for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to support the economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability, and general liveability of cities.
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At Alcatel-Lucent, the success and sustainability of our business depends on our ability to help customers reduce their carbon footprints. Through our own products, services and solutions, and in concert with industry partners, we are determined to contribute to reduced greenhouse gas emissions across broad sectors of the economy.
Compared to other industries, the ICT sector is not a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It is directly responsible for only about 2% of total GHG emissions. But the ICT sector has a major role to play as it enables others to reduce their emissions in the remaining 98%. Alcatel-Lucent places particular emphasis on finding new ways to enable customers to more efficiently operate electricity generation and distribution systems, buildings, transportation and traffic management systems and other carbon-intensive activities.
This paper identifies the many opportunities for ICT to support environmental sustainability and describes its role for a low-carbon economy.
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Together with other companies, we pool our resources to make an impact on climate change. For example, as an active and long-standing member of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) Climate Change Work Group, Alcatel-Lucent is using the findings of GeSI’s landmark research to develop and promote innovative applications and solutions that help reduce carbon emissions. The findings suggest that all told, green ICT solutions could help reduce global carbon emissions by about 15% by 2020.*
Source: Alcatel-Lucent analysis of GeSI SMART 2020 data.
*SMART 2020: Enabling the Low Carbon Economy in the Information Age, Report by GeSI and Climate group, 2008.
This white paper explains how “smart services” applications are being deployed not only to meet consumer and environmental demands, but also to comply with public safety and regulatory requirements. It also examines the role played by fixed and mobile broadband access, personal commuting and device connectivity in helping to change end-user consumption patterns.
The suite of services examined in this white paper includes smart buildings, smart collaboration, smart utilities and smart transportation. But these are not the only potential business opportunities. Other segments, such as health care and water and gas grids, face similar challenges and are undergoing similar transformations.
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In an important step toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions, in September 2010, the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) launched a methodology for evaluating the carbon-reducing potential of new ICT initiatives. This practical tool aims to provide businesses, policy makers and the ICT industry with a common yardstick for assessing carbon emissions savings arising from ICT-based solutions. Alcatel-Lucent will use GeSI’s new ICT evaluation methodology to measure the carbon reduction benefits of its communication solutions.
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